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We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....
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This paper examines the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2006. Most of the analysis is based on Census data, and on weekly wage and salary earnings of full-time workers. Our main finding is that the returns to education increased substantially for Canadian...
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We compare predicted relative immigrant wage profiles based on returns to YSM and to foreign and host-country sources of schooling and experience. We find the biases inherent in inferring assimilation from a return to YSM appear more substantial than those emanating from the assumptions...
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The paper exploits the newly available Census data on the earnings of individuals in the apprenticeable trades to examine the returns to apprenticeship training. Only a small minority of males work in these trades, concentrated in the construction, production and mechanical trades where their...
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. Increasing family income inequality drove much of the rise in neighbourhood inequality. Increased spatial economic segregation … growth, and a rise in neighbourhood income inequality. …
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Recent trends in inequality and poverty across Western Canada, a region known for its energy resources, seem to … correspond to movements in energy prices, with much of the rise in inequality and decline in poverty taking place during the … could potentially alter the aggregates of inequality and poverty, depending on how these gains are distributed across the …
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“Has the Canadian Labour Market Polarized?†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 133) analyses movements in wage inequality, and …
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In the energy-rich region of Western Canada, inequality rose over the past two decades, while poverty declined, begging … the question of whether the recent energy boom was a contributing factor. This study uses measures of inequality and … evidence shows that, overall, the boom increased inequality and decreased poverty. There are, however, a few notable cases …
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occupations than those in the middle since 1981. However, up to 2005, the wage pattern reflects a simple increase in inequality …
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empirically assess the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of … and reduce wage inequality, the policy has the unintended effect of causing labor tax revenues to fall as a result of … growth in American wage inequality in recent decades. In a paper entitled “The Effect of Labour Relations Laws on Union …
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